Citing the victories by Democrats in all of New York’s statewide races on Tuesday, Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., said yesterday that he would step down as chairman of the State Democratic Party at the end of the year.

Herman D. Farrell Jr., the chairman of the state Democratic Committee, said yesterday that he would seek to reform the selection process for all Supreme Court justices who run on the party's slate. The announcement comes in the aftermath of several...

ALBANY, Jan. 12 - Even for Albany, which is no stranger to low comedy among its politicians and the reporters who cover them, the scene was nothing short of remarkable: the head of the Democratic Party charging onto the air to confront a reporter...

When one of New York's top political leaders, Herman D. Farrell Jr., questioned having a party in South Boston during the Democratic National Convention this summer, saying that neighborhood had a ''history of racial turmoil and tension,'' a Boston...

To the Editor: I am outraged that the new commission being formed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to study changes to the City Charter has already agreed to place his proposal to dismantle the city's election system on the November ballot (news...

For two days this week, nearly 1,500 Democrats will assemble at a hotel in Manhattan in a dusty ritual of New York politics: the state party convention. There will be candidates' speeches, and a keynote address by a big-name Democrat. There will be...

May 19, 2002, Sunday

To the Editor: Re ''Cuomo-McCall Contest Quickly Turns Nasty'' (front page, April 12): The Democratic primary candidates may be running hard, aggressive campaigns, but neither is engaged in nastiness of any sort.

President Bush flew into New York yesterday and declared that he would stand by his pledge to provide the city with at least $20 billion to help rebuild from last summer's terrorist attacks, moving to dispel doubts raised by Democrats about the depth...